That was not suppose to happen..

So last week thursday , I was playing in the first basketball game of a tournament that my team was in. Last 10 minutes of the game I jumped up and landed on a girls foot, causing me to sprain my ankle and now I am not allowed to play any sports for 4 to 6 weeks. Which is forcing me off my skates for almost half of the winter. I hate how that has happened but I cannot change what happened and all I have to do if really hope it will get better before 4 to 6 weeks. I have just begun to walk on it again very slowly. It does hurt and I really hope I'm not damaging it more but I am just trying to regain strength in my left foot. The timing of this sucks and I'm not sure if I will have to change what I am doing for this project but I will hopefully figure something out that works.

Sunday Skate

This past Sunday I got my skates ready, drove down to Gateway Community Club, and went to the public skating they have there for an hour every Sunday. But when I got there, I went to look at the rink and it was full of little kids that barely knew how to skate, and with what I want to do on the ice (which is time myself while skating around the rink) I can't do that with a bunch of little kids in the way. So sadly that didn't work out, I'm hoping to find some time to go skating soon at Canlan, it is just so far out there and I don't really have gas money or time to do that right now. So hopefully next Sunday it won't be too crowded or the outdoor rinks will open soon.

Stickhandling Drills

     I have been looking around for different drills to improve my stick handling. There are a lot of videos for different levels of skills with stick handling. One that I found is for a little more advanced hockey player, but I really liked the drills so I am going to leave a link to the video. I am not a beginner at stick handling but I think I might just start with easier drills then gradually shift into more advanced as sort of a warm up type of thing. An easier drill I will probably start with is in this video. This one can be difficult and it can be easier, I will probably start out with the pucks spread out more and probably not go as fast as this guy was, just to begin with. But after a little while and I get warmed up I will tighten up the pucks and go a little bit faster. Before I do the stick handling drills I will probably do a couple laps around the rink just to warm up my skating.
     I've been having trouble finding time to go out to the rink, seeing as the only one that allows stick and puck is pretty far away from where I live. I am hopefully going to have some time next week maybe Wednesday to go either just for a skate or go out to Canlan and work on my stick handling.